In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There’s a thing in psychology where they think if it’s popular, it can’t be serious.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

We uploaded ‚Ocean Eyes‘ to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

When I put out ‚Video Games‘ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

Everything popular is wrong.

It’s a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it’s all about football. That’s what they remember about me.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven’t seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

I did work in a strip club, but I didn’t strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

A President cannot always be popular.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.